Moth Night

Another night with the trap firmly planted in the back garden, forecast was good for Sunday into Monday which I didn’t want to do  due to work, I like doing the Friday in to Saturday but due to rain moving in for Friday/Saturday nights Sunday was the option, however this changed so it was a Saturday into Sunday, 3 new moths species for the garden (Definatly a Yellow theme to the night) so here is the list and a couple of photos to enjoy

  1. Common Rustic agg (3)
  2. Dark Arches – 2321 (3)
  3. Dotted Clay – 2130 (1)
  4. Garden Rose Tortix – 1048 (1)
  5. Heart and Dart – 2089 (2)
  6. Ingrailed Clay – 2120 (2)
  7. Large Yellow Underwing – 2107 (17)
  8. Least Yellow Underwing – 2112 (1)
  9. Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing -2111 (1)
  10. Lesser Yellow Underwing – 2109 (1)
  11. Light Arches – 2322 (1)
  12. Marbled Beauty – 2293 (1)
  13. Middle barred Minor – 2340 (2)
  14. Pug Sp (1)
  15. Swallow tailed Moth – 1922 (1)

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing

Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing - 2111

Least Yellow Underwing

Least Yellow Underwing - 2112
Dotted Clay

Dotted Clay - 2130

2 responses to “Moth Night

  1. I never thought I’d work up an interest in moths, but your posts, coupled with having planted the attractant hyssop in the garden, is changing that! RH

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